When visiting a pharmacy, you put your trust in the pharmacist when you hand them your prescription slip. You expect their professionalism and utmost attention when filling or re-filling a prescription. You also expect them to alert you if any medication you are currently taking may interact with your new prescription.
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Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Whether it is something as small as a misread handwriting to job stress to pure laziness, pharmacist negligence is a dangerous threat to all of us.
There are many different reasons and causes for pharmacist negligence, some of them intentional and some of them not. Most of the time it is due to illegible handwriting, or incorrect input of data into their computer system. Other times it may be due to the fact that the pharmacist is doing too many things at once while trying to fill a prescription; talking to a patient on the phone, talking to a colleague, or performing personal business on the clock. In some rare cases, negligence is caused by the fact that pharmacist is not knowledgeable enough to perform the tasks and duties assigned to them.
Whatever the case may be, negligence is inexcusable. If you have been a victim of a negligent pharmacist, please call the experienced pharmacist error lawyers of Anapol Schwartz for your free consultation.